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This presentation will explore the financial and technical aspects of subsea cable losses in both offshore wind and submarine interconnectors.

Presenter

Capt. Sturgeon has been working in the subsea cable industry for more than 30 years, acquiring a wealth of experience, built on a foundation of 10 years command of cable ships and management of projects offshore, and diverse management roles ashore in project strategy, development and operations. He continues to be actively engaged in marine warranty survey, fault and incident investigation, and providing expert services and advice for cable projects across industry sectors. Chris is CEO of Red Penguin and more recently has also joined with other leading specialists to establish Penbridge Marine, a company formalising the collaboration of several years between Red Penguin and another leading sector specialist, Cambridge Marine, to provide focussed risk control services to the insurance market for subsea cables projects.

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Registration from 1200, presentation starts at 1230, refreshments & networking to follow

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Oceanology International China Exhibition & Conference 2019 will take place 13-15 November 2019.

This year sees the return to Shanghai with the conference focus specifically tailored to the needs of a Chinese audience to learn international best practice and expertise in the following technical topic areas:

 Unmanned Vehicles

• Applications and developments in surface systems
• Applications and developments in Underwater/subsea systems
• Autonomy and/or collaboration between unmanned systems
• Applications for the offshore wind, oil and gas or marine aquaculture operations

Ocean ICT 

• Novel systems for the management and use of ever increasing amounts of ocean data
• Technology required to acquire and safely transmit data offshore
• New platforms or novel applications of managing, analysing and storing large data bases for both real time feedbacks into projects or for future use
• Application of 5G technology in ocean communication data transmission

Ocean Observation and Sensing

• Developments in sensors, instrumentation and measurement tools and techniques
• Regional Ocean observing systems design, methods and operations
• New platforms or novel applications of platforms for ocean observing
• Early warning systems for coastal monitoring and protection

Positioning, Navigation & Hydrography

• Developments in tools and techniques
• Latest technologies on and below the sea surface

Submit an Abstract for Presentation

If you would like to submit an abstract for consideration for a 20 minute presentation at OI China 2019, please submit a 300 word abstract to [email protected] by Friday, July 19th 2019.

More Information

For more information on Oceanology International China 2019, or the Call for Abstract Guidelines, please visit the event website:  https://www.oichina.com.cn/en-gb/forum/forum1.html

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Follow the light or feel the burn! The pressure to attend to ‘whole-person’ safety and health in the workplace is turning up, with a particular focus on protecting employees’ mental health and wellbeing. With an increased sense of urgency, media coverage and the cacophony of training providers vying for your investment, it is easy to become overwhelmed.

This thirty-minute lunchtime presentation is designed to bring you back down to earth. To provide you with an introduction to the latest WA Code of Practice on mentally healthy workplaces for resources and construction sectors, give some insight to the regulators expectations and share a few things that typically get in the way of very capable people, taking positive action.

This event is run by WISE – Women in Subsea Engineering

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Energy Harvesting for Sustainable Long Tie-Back Development

Subsea tiebacks have become a major factor in the development of new oil and gas reserves. Oil companies are pushing forward the technology of subsea tiebacks to produce more oil and gas at lower cost, over longer distances and in deeper waters. However the umbilical exhibits a significant part of the development cost for such long tie-back as the umbilical price per meter increases with the step out. In addition power is usually required as boosting and/or heating are typically needed to produce over long distance which requires power cables to be incorporated in already challenging umbilical.

Subsea 7 have developed a technology portfolio to tackle the power challenges for long tie-back based on energy harvesting. This has been capitalised on our Seaway 7 – Renewable and Heavy Lifting business unit – experience in delivering EPCI renewable projects. The aim is to use surrounding energies that are available in typical offshore environments (waves, wind, current and solar energies) to produce electricity locally and remotely supply subsea consumers. This is not only a cost enabler for long tie-back as it simplifies the umbilical but also leads to a sustainable field development as it reduces fuel consumption (OPEX) and operator carbon footprint. This development is part of a wider initiative on long tie-back umbilical simplification as All Electric System can remove hydraulic tubes and Subsea Chemical Storage and Injection can remove chemical tubes.

Presented by Vincent Boulliat, Field Development Study Lead,

Subsea 7

Vincent is a project engineering manager for Subsea7. Graduated from a hydrodynamic and oceanographic French engineering school, he has 19 years’ experience in the Oil and Gas industry mainly in installation engineering and operation. He worked on various projects from West Africa large deepwater ones, such as Exxon Kizomba C and TOTAL Pazflor, to smaller North Sea ones. He is experienced with the installation of a large panel of products from flexible pipelines and umbilical to rigid pipelines. Vincent now works in the Subsea 7 Field Development Group, which performs field optimization studies for Operators, to support them in making their subsea developments viable and with maximized value.

Overview of the self-sustaining intelligent monitoring buoy

OPT will present an overview of the PowerBuoy® PB3 project currently deployed in the Central North Sea as a self-sustaining intelligent platform to provide communications and remote monitoring services. The initial phase of the OGTC and Premier Oil supported project will explore the PowerBuoy® capabilities and its ability to monitor the local environment and alert shipping of its position. The project represents the first time that a wave power device is being deployed on the UKCS on an oil and gas development. The system is providing monitoring to safeguard subsea safety zones and generating power with a view to operating subsea assets, meaning it fits well with the focus on reducing the cost of decommissioning and unlocking small pools while contributing to the “net carbon zero” aim of the industry.

This new system increases safety, efficiency and operational effectiveness while delivering a step change in decommissioning planning processes and the potential for future applications for intelligent, remotely controlled small field developments.

Presented by Paul Watson, Director UK & Europe Business Development – OPT Ltd

Paul Watson joined Ocean Power Technologies in August 2012 as Director of Business Development UK & Europe.

Paul has worked in technical and business development roles for a number of major companies in different market segments. Paul now uses this wide experience and knowledge to help companies transfer their innovative technology to new markets by creating alternative solutions to existing challenges.

Power System for Tether Back-up and Resident ROVs

Teledyne Energy Systems Incorporated (TESI) will present on the recent fielding of a fuel cell-based subsea power node. It is envisioned that this subsea power node will provide back-up power to subsea tethers, resident ROVs, and subsea sensor networks. To date, batteries have been the only option to provide this functionality. We will review the recent fielding of a TESI Subsea Power Node that was used to power a resident ROV through ship husbandry exercises. During the ship husbandry exercises, an ROV would traverse a dock and then inspect a simulated ship hull; the TESI Subsea Power Node delivered all the power required for operation. The Teledyne Subsea Power Node was able to be fueled dockside and performed a dockside deployment, recovery, and redeployment activity. This system is capable of delivering either 8 or 25 kW of electrical power per module. A Teledyne Subsea Power Node can also be hybridized with a battery to provide 100’s of kW. A subsea power node can provide subsea robotic vehicles, tasked with collecting oceanographic data, with persistent monitoring. The Teledyne Subsea Power Node will provide communications and data storage that could be retrieved by either buoy release or by direct communication with other underwater assets. The merits and applications of a subsea power node are in long-term back-up power and in reducing operator suffering in running subsea cables to new locations. This system may provide a solution to minimizing cable laying costs, permitting, and survey processes when preparing new locations for observation. In this presentation, we will discuss the lessons learned and challenges in deploying a fuel cell-based subsea power node.

Presentation by Dr Thomas Valdez , Manager, Chemical Engineering Group, Teledyne Energy Systems inc

Dr. Thomas I. Valdez is the Chemical Engineering Group Manager at Teledyne Energy Systems Incorporated, Hunt Valley Maryland. He manages the development of advanced chemical and electrochemical engineering systems. These projects include advanced electrolysis for the generation of hydrogen and oxygen, fuel cell technologies with a focus on powering air-independent applications, and battery systems for energy storage. His battery system focus is on advanced passive thermal management to enhance durability and address failure propagation mitigation in lithium-based batteries.

Thomas has over 28 years of experience in the area of advanced power systems for military, space, underwater, and commercial applications. His career began at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) where he was a major contributor to the JPL Fuel Cell Group and Power Systems Section. Thomas has received various NASA New Technology Awards, has published several technical papers in scientific journals, and has co-authored three book chapters on fuel cell technology. He has several patents with regard to his work on fuel cells, electrochemical sensors, and energy harvesting systems.
His educational background starts with being a student of Mr. Jaime Escalante, whose teachings were the basis of the Hollywood movie Stand and Deliver. Thomas holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters of Science degree in Materials Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. He completed his doctorate in Materials Science under Professor Florian Mansfeld, winner of the Electrochemical Society Vittorio de Nora Award, at the University of Southern California.

Registration 17:30, Start 18:00 Refreshments and Networking to follow

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